Perforator for checks, &amp;c.



PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

J. M. STEINHARDT.

PBRFORATOR FOR CHECKS, 8w

APPLICATION FILED APE.11,1904.

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR 1 QM BY W m. WW I ATTORNEY PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

J. M. STBINHARDT.

PERPORATOR FOR CHECKS, 8w.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.11,1904.

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INVENTOR WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY.

Patented May 9, 1905.

PATENT EETcE.

JACOB M. STEINl-IARDT, OF NEWARK, NEWV JERSEY.

PERFORATOR FOR CHECKS, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,181, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed April 11, 1904- Serial No. 202,527..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ACOB M. STEINHARDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Perforators for Checks, 620.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper tains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to reduce the cost of construction and to simplify the device, to secure greater durability and strength, and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved perforating device for perforating checks, banknotes, tickets, and other documents or papers and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved perforating device. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken on line ac, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the relation of the punches to cooperating parts lying adjacent thereto. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of my improved device, the upper part of which is in vertical section. Fig. 5 is a section of the same, taken at line y. Fig. 6 is a detail front view of a portion of a sliding carriage and a punch-actuating disk arranged therein, and Fig. 7 is a detail view showing a portion of the periphery of said disk.

In said drawings, 10 indicates the baseplate upon which the perforated die-plate 11 has its bearings, said die-plate being preferably separable from said base-plate 10; but it may be in one integral piece therewith, the

latter construction being preferred when the said bed-plate is struck up from sheet-steel. Said die-plate 11 is perforated, as at 12, to receive punches 13. At one side of said bedplate 10 is secured, by screws 14 or other suitable means, a standard 15, which projects forward at its upper part from the perforated die-plate 11 and provides a vertical slideway 16, the said slideway being preferably closed at the front end by a removable keeper-plate 17, adapted to be removed to permit the removal of the sliding carriage 18 and the other parts contained in said slideway or standard. The top of the standard is provided with a cap 19, which performs several functions. It rovides a stop for limiting upward movement of the sliding carriage. It also serves as a bearing for the vertical carriage-shaft 20, as a bearing for the carriage-lifting spring 21, and as a stop for limiting the downward movement of the said carriage and the punchoperating device connecting therewith. VVithin the slideway 16 is arranged the sliding carriage 18, which preferably comprises the bifurcated piece consisting of the shaft 20, above referred to, and the fork 22. The prongs of the said fork are each perforated near their lower extremities to provide bearings for a horizontal shaft or axle 23, upon which the punch-operating disk 24 has its bearings, the said disk being preferably keyed upon said shaft 23 or fixed thereto in any suitable manner, so as to turn therewith when said shaft 23 is operated by the fingers, as hereinafter described. The said shaft 20 projects upward through the cap 19 and at its upper extremity is provided with a head 25, fixed thereon in any suitable manner and adapted to receive the pressure of the hand, whereby the carriage 18 is forced downward against the resistance of the spring 21, the downward movement being limited by the head coming into engagement with the cap. The said cap at its upper side is cupped to receive the spring 21 and prevent undue pressure being brought thereon and the consequent breakage of said spring.

The horizontal shaft 23, on which the disk 24 is secured, projects horizontally outward or forward from said disk through a vertical slot 35, Fig. 4, in the front plate 17, and at its forward extremity said shaft 23 is provided with a knurled thumbpiece 27 and a graduated flange 28, provided with the graduationmarks adapted to register with the index-finger 29, secured to the front plate. The said indexfinger is preferably a spring-pawl adapted to enter notches 30, Fig. 1, formed in the periphery of the said flange. The said graduatedflange and index-finger serve together to indicate the relation of the disk 24 to the punches 13, the parts being so related one with the other as to enable the operator to effect the perforation desired by turning the finger-piece and flange to the point of coincidence of the pawl with the desired notch, when the disk will be turned to bring the corresponding deep holes 36 into coincidence with the punches 13.

The periphery of the disk 24, which may not necessarily be a true circle, (and, indeed, is preferably provided with a series of flat facets 37, Fig. 6,) is provided with a series of collections of holes, each collection having deep holes 36 and shallow holesor indenta tions 37, and each hole in each respective collection of holes in the disk corresponding in location with a punch 1.3 of the collection of punches arranged in vertical position directly beneath said disk, when the respective collection is turned to operative position. The said punches are arranged in horizontal partitions 31 31 of the standard 15, in which partitions the said punches are free to slide vertically. The perforations in said partitions are made with considerable exactness, so that when the punches are forced downward they will be directed into the perforations of the die-plate 11. Each of the punches is preferably provided with a spring 32, Fig.

3, to lift the punch out of its perforation in the die-plate when relieved of pressure, al though I may dispense with said spring and employ a spring-actuated stripping-plate (not herein shown and which may form the subject of separate application) to serve the same or a similar purpose. The deep holes 36 formed in the disk 24 permit of a considerable movement of the carriage 18 and the disk in the slideway without operating the coinciding punches, the coinciding punches when said disk is lowered entering the deep holes. The shallow holes or indentations 37, however, serve to, receive the ends of the corresponding punches and hold the same in positive position; but immediately upon an engagement of the said punches with the disk at the said shallow holes or indentations the said punches are forced downward to effect the desired perforations. The notches of shallow holesare so disposed in the several collections as to form the desired design, letter, or number in the paper thrust in the horizontal slot 38 above the die-plate 11.

Near the bottom of the slideway 16 is stationed a projecting key 33, fixed to the inside of the front plate 17. The front face of the disk is radially grooved, as shown at 34 in Figs. 6 and 7. When the disk is lowered with its carriage, the key enters one of the grooves 34 and holds the disk positively and with exactness in position to receive the upper end of the punches, the said disk first engaging the key and afterward the punches.

In operating the device the finger-piece 27 is turned to bring the pawl or tooth into engagement with the desired notch of the flange, the disk is correspondingly turned, and the desired collection of deep and shallow holes having thus been brought into proper alinement with the collection of punches the handpiece and carriage are pressed down to effect the desired perforation of the paper or document previously inserted in the slot 38.

I am aware that various changes may be made in the detail construction of my improved perforating implement, and consequently I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself by all the descriptive terms employed in the foregoing specification, except as the state of the art may positively re uire.

aving thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In a perforator for checks, &c., the combination with the die-plate and punches, of a carriage having a vertical shaft adapted to be operated from its upper end and having a fork fixed at its lower end, said fork having a horizontal shaft arranged therein, said horizontal shaft at its exposed end having means whereby it may be turned in its relation to the fork and having means whereby the position of the rotary disk, with respect to the punches, may be identified, and said rotary disk arranged on said horizontal shaft and having punch-receiving holes. Y

2. In a perforator for checks, &c., the combination with the die-plate and punches, of a carriage having a vertical shaft having a head fixed to its upper end and a fork fixed to its lower end, the said fork having shaftbearings, a horizontal shaft on which is ar ranged a notched flange at the front end and, at its rear end, having a rotary disk with a series of collections of punch-receiving holes therein and means for turning said disk, substantially as set forth.

3. In a perforator for checks, &c., the combination with a base-plate and a standard having a vertical slideway and a remov able, slotted keeper-plate, the die-plate and punches, of a sliding carriage; arranged in said slideway and having a knob or head at its upper end and bearings for a horizontal shaft at its lower end, said horizontal shaft extending through the slotted keeper-plate and on the outside having a thumb-piece and on the inside of said keeper-plate having a rotary disk with a series of collections of punchreceiving holes therein, substantially as set forth.

4. The improved check-perforator in which is combined a base-plate having a perforated die-plate thereon, a standard projecting upward from said base-plate, over said dieplate, and having a vertical slideway therein and a perforated cap thereon, and having a vertically-slotted keeper-plate at the front thereof, a sliding carriage arranged on said slideway, which carriage is bifurcated at its lower part and has a shaft extending upward through said cap, a lifting-spring arranged at the top of said cap and adapted to hold the carriage normally elevated above the punches, a horizontal shaft arranged in the prongs of the bifurcated part of said carriage, said horizontal shaft extending out from the carriage and provided with means whereby said shaft may be turned in its bearin s a disk on said shaft having punch re- *2: ceiving holes, some of whlch are deep and others of which are less deep, and punches arranged between said disk and said dieplate and adapted to enter the perforations in the die-plate and the holes in the disk, substantially as set forth.

5. In a perforator for checks, &c., the

combination with the die-plate and punches, of a carriage having a rotary disk with a series of collections of indentations and deep punch-receiving holes therein each collection consisting partly of shallow indentations and partly of deep holes, and means for turning said disk, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with the bed-plate having the perforated die, of a standard having punches seated in partitions of said standard, means for holding the punches normally up from the die-plate, a carriage havin a disk above said punches and having ho les therein into which the punches may enter, certain of said holes being shallow indentations and others being much deeper than said indentations, said disk being fixed on a horizontal shaft having bearings in said standard together with a finger-piece, and a spring for raising said carriage, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of April, 1904.

J AOOB M. STEINHARDT WVitnesses CHARLES H. PELL, RUssELL M. EVERETT. 

